"The Sixth Sense" Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death (1972)

User Rating:

2.4/10   

Director:

John Newland

Writers:

Anthony Lawrence (creator) and
Jonathan Stone (writer)

TV Series:

"The Sixth Sense" (1972)

Original Air Date:

30 September 1972 (Season 2, Episode 2)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Extended version of an episode of the series The Sixth Sense. Joan Crawford plays a woman who stumbles upon a group of ESP enthusiasts who decide to use their abilities to scare her to death.

Plot Keywords:

Actor Shares First Name With Character | E.s.p. | ESP | Extrasensory Perception | Number In Title

Cast

Gary Collins	...	Dr. Michael Rohodes
Joan Crawford	...	Joan Fairchild
David Ladd	...	Paul
Kelly Jean Peters	...	Lori
Scott Hylands	...	Jason
Martine Bartlett	...	Carrie
Lenore Kasdorf	...	Karen
Anne Lockhart	...	Diana

Runtime:

75 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Company:

Universal TV

Trivia:

Rod Serling replaced Gary Collins as host when this episode was later re-edited and included as part of "Night Gallery" (1970) in syndication.

Quotes:

Joan Fairchild: It was all so real. So terribly real.

Movie Connections:

References Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)

No amount of Sixth Sense on Joan's part

was able to provide her with the right feeling about appearing on this series and consequently we are left with the final jigsaw piece of camp that completed Crawford's 1000 piece set. It's beyond criticism really, no one could possibly argue that it's in any way superior television. She's game, I guess, in a trouper sort of way. But it's a nervy, jagged way to take a curtain call (though there is a moment where she conceals herself from her would be attackers behind a curtain. Gee, I would never have thought to look there. So much for a Sixth Sense). You feel bad for the woman, you really do. And yet, determined as she was, maybe she left us with an enduring legacy, a message ...wait...I'm getting something...yep, ''keep on keeping on until you can give no more''. Any sane actress would have called it quits after this, so we can have no doubt about Crawford's lucidity in her final years. That should give us a certain solace.